According to the arrest warrant application, Ms Nzuki created an account with the vendor company, posing as a Dell employee, and synched up her account and the university’s account by entering Dell’s federal tax ID and imputing an invoice number and amount owed from any Dell invoice to UConn.

Ms Nzuki was arraigned before Rockville Superior Court and charged with first-degree larceny and first-degree computer crime and was held on a $500,000 (Sh50m) bond.

She is expected again in court on December 1.

ARREST

Records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that Nzuki has been a naturalised US citizen as of 2010, has a U.S. passport as well as a Kenyan passport.

Her arrest came less than two weeks after Ms Hellen Kiago, 47, was charged with stealing $ 2.7 million, equivalent to Sh 278 million, in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Prosecutors say that the Kenyan born US citizen used her health care company to file false Medicaid claims.

She was accused of routinely over-billing and falsely billing for services that were not authorised.

BANK ACCOUNT

Ms Kiago and her company, Lifestream Healthcare Alliance LLC, billed MassHealth for home health provided to patients that were not authorised by a physician, reported telegram.com, an online news site in Worcester.

Prosecutors said that two days after authorities served her with a search warrant on Dec 1 last year, Ms Kiago opened a bank account in the name of her young daughter and deposited some of the money in that account.

In January, Ms Kiago allegedly transferred $1 million (Sh100m) to an account in Kenya.